Most Unhittable Pitch?
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To me it is still the knuckleball. Well, maybe not this year since they got nerfed. But man it was such a pain loading into a game while staring at diamond Phil Niekro or R.A. Dickey on your opponent's lineup.
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High and in sinkers.....
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Any fastball 97 or above
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@WDK19 said in Most Unhittable Pitch?:
@the_dragon1912 said in Most Unhittable Pitch?:
I know this is a strange choice but for me it is Walker Buehler’s cutter and it isn’t close
I faced it on legend the other day and you’re right it’s disgusting. But I’m not sure how much of that was just it being on legend
On legend some guy was dotting me with that cutter on the lower right hand side corner just out of the zone against Righties, while tunneling it with the 4seam (for strikes) and it was hell.
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@WDK19 said in Most Unhittable Pitch?:
@the_dragon1912 said in Most Unhittable Pitch?:
I know this is a strange choice but for me it is Walker Buehler’s cutter and it isn’t close
I faced it on legend the other day and you’re right it’s disgusting. But I’m not sure how much of that was just it being on legend
It’s tough on AS and HOF as well. It just moves so much
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97 Chapmans change up
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@tomivory23 said in Most Unhittable Pitch?:
Mariano Rivera's sinker. It's a good one. The fact that no major league pitching coach or player could show him how to throw an effective one.
Does a little training with Sds...boom throws sinker. Imagine if Sds could have got to him while he was still playing.
This is awesome! Yeah SDS has some great coaching talent!
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Yeah. Still the high and tight sinker. Next year they will be nerfed though and something else will be the new meta. My money is on change ups.
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@MikeForbes101 said in Most Unhittable Pitch?:
Yeah. Still the high and tight sinker. Next year they will be nerfed though and something else will be the new meta. My money is on change ups.
You say that but sinkers have been the meta pitch in 17, 19, and 20 and nothing has changed. At least in 18 it was splitters
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@the_dragon1912 said in Most Unhittable Pitch?:
@MikeForbes101 said in Most Unhittable Pitch?:
Yeah. Still the high and tight sinker. Next year they will be nerfed though and something else will be the new meta. My money is on change ups.
You say that but sinkers have been the meta pitch in 17, 19, and 20 and nothing has changed. At least in 18 it was splitters
It is really hard to say where we are moving to a new gen. I am hoping sinkers get nerfed though.
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@the_dragon1912 said in Most Unhittable Pitch?:
@MikeForbes101 said in Most Unhittable Pitch?:
Yeah. Still the high and tight sinker. Next year they will be nerfed though and something else will be the new meta. My money is on change ups.
You say that but sinkers have been the meta pitch in 17, 19, and 20 and nothing has changed. At least in 18 it was splitters
This is true, sinkers have always been the meta and I think they will remain to be the meta. Even if they nerf the break for sinkers high in the zone, a sinker that works as intended is still a fantastic pitch to induce weak groundballs as was the case in 17. If you chased it below the zone, you couldn't pull that out of the park. You would ground out like you're supposed to for chasing a pitcher's pitch.
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@raesONE said in Most Unhittable Pitch?:
@the_dragon1912 said in Most Unhittable Pitch?:
@MikeForbes101 said in Most Unhittable Pitch?:
Yeah. Still the high and tight sinker. Next year they will be nerfed though and something else will be the new meta. My money is on change ups.
You say that but sinkers have been the meta pitch in 17, 19, and 20 and nothing has changed. At least in 18 it was splitters
This is true, sinkers have always been the meta and I think they will remain to be the meta. Even if they nerf the break for sinkers high in the zone, a sinker that works as intended is still a fantastic pitch to induce weak groundballs as was the case in 17. If you chased it below the zone, you couldn't pull that out of the park. You would ground out like you're supposed to for chasing a pitcher's pitch.
Agree 100%. While sinkers high in the zone this year are more broken then ever before, they have always been the best pitch in the game. Hell arguably the best pitcher in 17 was (checks notes) Orel Hershiser. Makes sense
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Sinkers are more juiced this year than they've ever been, and it makes for a lazy meta. They really slowed down cutters this year too.
94mph sinker = 100mph fastball timing
94mph cutter = 90mph fastball timingSinkers need a nerf imo
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bauer’s mid 80s cutter is ruining my life
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@WDK19 said in Most Unhittable Pitch?:
Orel’s sinker
I sure as [censored] can’t hit it, but no one else has a problem against me.
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Everything Chapman throws. Good lord do I still hate seeing him come out of the pen. I don't have a hard time with 102 from DeGrom or Crochet, but something above Chapman's delivery just obliterates my ability to hit. I'm so over-hyped for his fastball I flail at pretty much everything else.
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That Darvish back door cutter to lefties kills me by the time i realize what that pitch is it's too late to swing.
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Just a simple fastball inside to a same handed batter. Unless you’ve been spamming it, or they’re one of those trashy early swingers who looks like they’re out of their gourd on Ritalin, it’s going to blow straight by a lot of hitters. Combined with a decent slider, you can make people look stupid quite easily.
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@mjfc_363 said in Most Unhittable Pitch?:
@tomivory23 said in Most Unhittable Pitch?:
Mariano Rivera's sinker. It's a good one. The fact that no major league pitching coach or player could show him how to throw an effective one.
Does a little training with Sds...boom throws sinker. Imagine if Sds could have got to him while he was still playing.
This is awesome! Yeah SDS has some great coaching talent!
The check swing coach is phenomenal. Glad he was extended after a great season in '19. Can't wait to see what he does in '21
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@LankyRyan said in Most Unhittable Pitch?:
Sinkers are more juiced this year than they've ever been, and it makes for a lazy meta. They really slowed down cutters this year too.
94mph sinker = 100mph fastball timing
94mph cutter = 90mph fastball timingSinkers need a nerf imo
Agreed
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